Example sentences of "[verb] come [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The time has come to look at the Treaty of European Union and the philosophy which lies behind it in a little more detail .
2 This is where family work could be useful helping the whole family to understand the part alcohol has come to play in the life of the vulnerable elderly person , the pattern of abuse , the defensiveness about it , and the likely outcome .
3 The chair has to come to rest at the bottom of the stairs and you need room to get on and off at both ends .
4 The shift is a subtle one in which ‘ the mores , attitudes , and thinking of those regulated come to prevail in the approach and thinking ’ of many regulatory officials ( Bernstein , 1955:83 ) .
5 She suspected that Mark was thinking of the West Indians who had come to live in the parish and of course that was very right .
6 He had come to lean against the foot of the banisters , looking up at her with a spark of challenge in his eyes .
7 And Melvyn , who had come to complain about the state of arts funding under the Conservatives , joined Alan in an impromptu duet .
8 He glanced up to where Merrill had come to stand in the doorway , an amused smile flickering across his sensual mouth , his eyes slightly mocking .
9 There were on the film set few of the moments I had come to dread during the run of the stage show — when he 'd slap me down , or even when he would encourage me , egg me on . ’
10 But the Secretary had come to stay as the hub of the administrative process .
11 Mrs Heaton said : ‘ I certainly did not expect this we had come to look at the architecture . ’
12 In fact , she was on the point of reining in when she saw that Beador had come to rest on the top of the trunk ; he stood there , poised like a trick rider in a circus .
13 The previous year she had amused herself with Greg Farrel , one of the agricultural students who had come to help with the harvest .
14 Sergeant Troy had come to help on the farm .
15 Representatives of the few people they had come to know in the course of their wanderings round the world were left to clear up .
16 The agricultural system was stable but not stagnant : it had come to depend on the cow , maize , and wheat , sensible rotations and no fallow .
17 For several reasons more people had come to depend on the cash purchase of goods .
18 He had come to think of the attack as a living creature which derived its nourishment from the speed of its progress .
19 A total of 350 visitors ( 97% of all respondents ) replied to question asking them about the way in which they had come to hear of the Library 's exhibitions .
20 That was true in 1987 , but not so true by the early 1990s ; by then governments had come to frown upon the idea of occasional realignments .
21 The Madame lived to the age of 90. when she died , some time in the 1970s , the hotel was left to Abdulrahim , a Nubian from Aswan who had come to work for the Madame as a young boy before the Second World War .
22 The smaller projects lack the glamour that the American public and politicians have come to associate with the word ‘ space ’ ; and the larger missions are too expensive for NASA operating on a Reagan-sized budget .
23 There is , therefore , none of the fitful air of discontinuity about the Schrödinger equation which we have come to associate with the quantum world .
24 Or again , it is as though the disorganized and random bursts of photons present in a beam of white light were suddenly all being accelerated and agitated to precisely the same frequency and directed at the same spot — to produce the awesome source of energy that we have come to know as the laser .
25 If they have come to rest through the act of sale to a stranger then , what was their price ? , and , in what currency were they purchased ?
26 Under Felipismo , Spaniards have come to depend on the state again , as they did for so long under Generalissimo Franco 's regime . ’
27 During the past 15 years patients have come to depend on the day hospital service .
28 In the Western world , two approaches have come to dominate in the course of the past 50 years : a medical approach and an educational approach .
29 The Aggravated Vehicle-Taking Bill follows a course that we have come to expect from the Home Secretary and the Government .
30 However , lively detail is no substitute for an integrated texture of the sort we have come to expect from the WNO chorus and orchestra .
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